First Arab-Israeli War

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 * name = Israeli War of Independence
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 * date = 30 November 1947-20 July 1949
 * place = [[Mandatory Palestine]], [[Sinai Peninsula], and [[Lebanon]]
 * result = Israel victory, defeat for Arab League

|side1 = Yishuv Israel &lt;nowiki&gt;

|side2 = Holy War Army Arab Liberation Army Lebanon Syria Iraq Egypt |commanders1 = David Ben-Gurion  Chaim Azriel Weizmann  Yigael Yadin  Yaakov Dori  David Shaltiel  Moshe Dayan  Yisrael Galili  Yigal Allon  Yitzhak Rabin  Moshe Carmel [&lt;nowiki&gt;|commanders2 = thumb|25x25px Sir John Bagot Glubb thumb|25x25px Habis al-Majali Flag of Hejaz 1917.svg (1).png Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni Flag of Hejaz 1917.svg (1).png Hasan Salama 900px-Flag of the Arab League.svg.png Fawzi al-Qawuqji Flag of Hejaz 1917.svg (1).png Mohammed Amin al-Husseini Flag of Egypt 4.png Farouk I Flag of Egypt 4.png Ahmed Abdullah Al-Mwawi Flag of Egypt 4.png Mohammed Naguib 900px-Flag of the Arab League.svg.png Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam

The Israeil War of Independence(30 November 1947 - 20 July 1949), was a war fought between Israel and Arab League states(Egypt, Iraq, Sudan,Yemen, Syria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon). Army of the Holy War was an early participant in the war, it became ineffective as Arab states joined the war against Israel. The Arab Liberation Army was set up by the Arab League as an alternative to the [High Committee|Arab High Committee]'s Army of the Holy War. Pakistan supported Arab League's side during the war. Mahal was a program for oversea volunteers that supported Israel during the war. The war resulted in Israel victory, Israel gained sixty percent of the land allocated to the Arab states under UN General Assembly Resolution 181. Those areas include Jaffa, Lyyda, Galilee, Ramla, territories in West Bank and parts of Negev. Even though it was considered a defeat for Jordan and Egypt, both countries did have some gains. At the ending of the war, Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied West Bank. The war also saw dramatic changes in the compositions of the populations of the areas that became Israel, particularly the Palestinian Arabs. There were 6373 casualties from Israel side and about 20,000 from the Arab League states side. 1949 Armistice Agreement, signified the end of war and the creation of Green Line. Historians typically divide the war into two phases. The first phase is known as the 1947-48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the second phase is known as 1948 Arab-Israeil War.